This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whaley Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ANWBAIB/965 Message Board Post: Archives of Maryland Online Passed Jan. 1, 1814. CHAP. XXXI. An Act to lay out and open a Road in Worcester Hundred, in Worcester County. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 25. Commissioners appointed to lay out and open a road. Proviso. 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Mitchell Gray, Lemuel Showell, senior, Seth Whaley, Nathaniel Evans and Adam Bravard, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to open, lay out, survey, mark and bound, a public road in Worcester county, not exceeding thirty feet wide, beginning at or near Crooksy Hill Road, thence running the divisional lines between the lands of Lemuel Showell and Aaron Halloway, Edward Bowles, Purnell's Mifflin's and Cairy's, to intersect the west line between the state of Maryland and Delaware, or to run in such directions as a majority of said commissioners may consider will be of most advantage to the public, and of least injury to the persons through whose land said road may pass; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall in any manner authorise the said commissioners to open said road through the buildings, gardens, orchards, yards or meadows, of any person or persons, without his, her or their consent. Damages to be ascertained. 2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall ascertain and value what damages may be sustained by any person or persons through whose land the said road may pass by opening and clearing the same.